Las Vegans will soon be able to buy homegrown shrimp at their neighborhood markets.
Yes, homegrown — North Las Vegas, to be exact.
Blue Oasis Shrimp Farm, owned by Ganix Bio-Technologies, in July celebrated the grand opening of its 30,000-square-foot, $5 million operation miles north of the Strip. The shrimp in the farm's zero-discharge, closed-containment ponds were pint-sized then, nowhere close to consumption. The facility is expected to produce 462,177 pounds of shrimp annually at full production.
The first batch was harvested in early November, and over the last month the company has been reaching out to restaurants and grocery stores to get the product in front of consumers.
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